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M. M. GBNTSLER.

GATE.

Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

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MICHAEL M. GENTSLER, OF HEIDLERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,424, dated October 9, 1883.

Application filed April 9,1883. (No model.)

- declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view of my gate. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section taken in line :1 3 Fig. 1; and Fig. 3is a section taken in line a: m, Fig. 1.

This invention has relation to improvements in hinge-connections for gates; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates a gate, and B the gate-post,to which it is connected.

G indicates a strong bolt, which extends through a perforation made in the middle por-. tion of the post, andis threaded on its end, as at d, to engage a nut, E, which holds a transverse clamp, Z, on the bolt.

F represents a vertically-adjustable hingebearing. It usually consists of two parallel vertical bars, G G, which are separated sufficiently to provide a vertical guideway, h, between them bymeans of washers or blocks is on the eyebolts L L, which form portions of the upper and lower gate-hinges. Hook-bolts may be employed instead of eye-bolts. if desired.

N N indicate the corresponding portions of V the upper and lower hinges, which are secured to the gate.

Connected to the hinge-bearing F, usually at some distance below the post-bolt O, and by means of the hinge-bolt L, is a stop-arm or bearing, P, which in this position projects along the side of the gate-post, engaging the same, and serving to prevent the hinge-bearing F from rotating on the said post-bolt. The gate, being entirely sustained by the post-bolt and hinge-bearing, is prevented from sagging by the arm 1?, which extends at right angles to the face of the hinge-bearing and parallel to the post-bolt. The interspace or guideway It extends vertically between the upper and lower hinge-bolts, L L, and when the. nut E is turned to loosen the clamp-head Z the gate can be adjusted so that it will swing at the desired height above the ground, and the clamp-head can then be fastenedto secure the adjustment. Should the gate sag, it may be elevated by raising the hinge-bearing; or a wedge or slip-bearing may be introduced between the arm P and the gate-post, thereby raising the outer end of the gate.

Gates provided with means for adjusting them to swing at any desired height above the ground have been heretofore constructed and used, and Itherefore-do not claim such devices, broadly.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The combination, with a gate and gate-post, of the parallel bars G G, hinge-bolts L L. separatin g blocks or washers k,- post-bolt G, clamphead Z, and stop-arm or bearing P, engaging the post, substantially as specified. V

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL M. GENTSLER.

V I Witnesses:

ISAAC E. ROUTZAHRO,

J. O. PITTENTERF. 

